Top 100 Strong Female Quotes
#1. I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.
Adrianne Palicki
#2. I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
Tamra Davis
#3. What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
Tavi Gevinson
#4. I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.
Bel Powley
#5. I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.
Amanda Schull
#6. The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I've seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
L.J.Smith
#7. Why do you write strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
Joss Whedon
#8. It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.
Anita Briem
#9. One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.
Emily Perkins
#10. I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.
William Gibson
#11. I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.
Bel Powley
#12. I'm a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! (Laughs) I try to be a strong female. I think it's important. My mum is my idol in life. She's a very strong woman. I think it's important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.
Kaya Scodelario
#13. I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about relationships, particularly strong female ones. In my family, there were six girls born in five years. We were best friends. And my parents raised all of us as first-class citizens.
Alane Ferguson
#14. I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
J.J. Abrams
#15. I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
Rachel Nichols
#16. I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing.
Evan Daugherty
#17. The first episodes I actually read for 'Downton,' Sybil was really intimidated and hadn't come into her own. So it's only in Series Two that she's become so headstrong. In general, I find it exciting to play strong, female roles because they're shocking.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#18. I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
Ryan Gosling
#19. I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.
Elizabeth Hand
#20. I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.
Katee Sackhoff
#21. So, why do you write these strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]
Joss Whedon
#22. There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.
Khandi Alexander
#23. I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.
Michael Lehmann
#24. Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
Hayao Miyazaki
#25. If you're a strong female, you don't need permission.
Lady Gaga
#26. I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.
Shari Sebbens
#27. I'm really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career.
Katy Perry
#28. Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men ... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
Rachael Taylor
#29. You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#30. Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
Meg Cabot
#31. I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L.J.Smith
#32. I'm always drawn to strong female leads, so that's what drew me to 'Lost Girl.' I was a 'Buffy' fan and watched it with friends every week. I was also a big fan of 'Alias' when that was on - they both had strong female leads, and that's what draws me in the most.
Anna Silk
#33. I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.
Carrie Underwood
#35. My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.
Anna Kendrick
#36. I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not typical, with a lot of heart, not an easy sell of a movie, not real commercial. It doesn't have to be a big movie, but I'm just looking for something that I really, truly, 100 percent believe in and am behind.
Missy Peregrym
#37. It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.
Katie Holmes
#38. I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.
Shannon Elizabeth
#39. I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
Natalie Portman
#40. I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.
Darren Star
#41. This strong female presence was remarkable in the aggressive patriarchy of Mecca and may explain why women were among the first to respond to the message of the Qur'an.
Karen Armstrong
#43. I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
Joan D. Vinge
#44. I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.
Leah Busque
#45. With Hostel II I thought I had a very, very strong female audience so I'm going to make a movie that's going to appeal to them. The guys will love it, they'll have their moments. But there'll be a lot more male nudity in this one. I have a lot of sausage in this one!
Eli Roth
#46. I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
Vicky McClure
#47. For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.
Marisa Miller
#48. There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.
Siouxsie Sioux
#49. It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it's not good, but because I don't want to play certain types of characters. I don't like to just play the pretty girl.
Gina Holden
#50. When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#51. I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#52. I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.
Susanna Hoffs
#53. We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now ... when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.
Storm Saulter
#54. I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool.'
Saoirse Ronan
#55. I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
William Gibson
#56. Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.
Kelis
#57. I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them.
Neil Marshall
#58. I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.
Alethea Kontis
#59. Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.
Chaz Bono
#60. I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.
Steven Moffat
#61. 'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.
Emilia Clarke
#62. I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
Ang Lee
#63. I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated - black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board.
Madonna Ciccone
#64. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.
Monroe Ariel
#65. I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.
Nicole Gulla
#66. No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.
Nicole Gulla
#67. I can't seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.
Becky Albertalli
#68. To all those women
strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.
Robert Fanney
#69. I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.
Alicia Sixtos
#70. I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.
Andie MacDowell
#71. I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don't want to wind up like you. I don't want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.
Jenna Brooks
#72. Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.
Thuy Trang
#73. There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
Gal Gadot
#74. Women who have suffered, no matter how afraid, hold out their hands in aid to help others. To create a loyalty like no other--as strong as an oak, as enduring as a mountain, and as brutal as Time - look no further than a female who has risen from the ashes.
K.F. Breene
#76. I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.
Alaina Huffman
#77. What happened tonight won't change a thing."
"You're mistaken, Lila. Everything started changing the moment we met.
Stephanie Witter
#78. I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.
Cheryl Rainfield
#79. The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
Robert Webb
#80. Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.
Terry Pratchett
#81. Buddy, you have no idea what I am capable of. Now, put the rifle down on the ground. Step back and walk away. Then leave this place and do not ever come back. If you do that, I will let you live.
James J. Caterino
#82. You're a lady. It's written all over you, but the West doesn't forgive any woman-unless she's got a man.
Liliana Shelbrook
#83. I shook my head back and forth as though I was a human etch-a-sketch, erasing the memory.
Nicole Gulla
#84. Broken people are the most dangerous...because they just don't give a fuck
Ashley Jade
#85. Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#86. Military training is a popular choice for both male and female transsexuals because it gives them not only a place to belong but also a strong sense of group affiliation.
Mildred L. Brown
#87. Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
Helen Mirren
#88. No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.
Lights Poxlietner
#89. Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love.
Joyce Carol Oates
#90. The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.
Tom Robbins
#91. An angry woman is a bitch. An angry man is strong, whereas, a sad man or a fearful man is a wimp. A sad or fearful woman is frail.
Irene Tomkinson
#92. Ava Elizabeth Baker you make yourself a survivor, not a victim. Become an exception and not a rule.
Nicole Gulla
#93. When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.
Amber Heard
#94. I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
Tara Strong
#95. So what if she wasn't a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn't wear her heart on her sleeve? She had done everything she had done for the best. For king and country.
Sara Sheridan
#96. But there's also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator's relationship with her (also female) German teacher. It's beautiful.
Deborah Smith
#97. Need someone to rescue?" She interrupted him again, spitting her words out with all the rage, contempt, and anger she had bottled up inside. "I'm not a damsel in distress, and you sir, are no knight in shining double breasted, JC Penny!
Dennis Sharpe
#98. She was stupid and lonely. So desperate to be touched and loved with a good love. I need you, don't leave me, you're all I have... ~Isadore
Lucian Bane
#99. Honestly, I have yet to encounter a really bad working experience. Sets are really my favorite places to be because of the many varied and interesting people you get to meet, interact and collaborate with. And I have always developed strong bonds with female costars. No cattiness yet!
Larisa Oleynik
#100. No matter what you are physically, male or female , strong or weak, sick or healthy , everything is not as important as what you have in the heart . If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior . All those other things are just the glass of the lamp , but you're the light shining inside.
Cassandra Clare
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